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Just read on twitter that the Saints High Performance guy Peter Burge has quit the Saints and will be joining us.
 
RT73 said:
Just read on twitter that the Saints High Performance guy has quit the Saints and will be joining us.
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Happy with this.

St Kilda have been a strong bodied team with decent injury records for a fair while now so happy to back in our experts in if this turns out correct.

Peter Burge he is. Formally at Hawthorn, which we probably shouldn't be surprised about. ;)

Won gold in the Long Jump at the 1998 Commonwealth games and came 6th at Sydney 2000.
 
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Burge has also worked with the NSW Waratahs rugby union side and was a long-jump gold medallist at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. And he competed in the long-jump for Australia at Sydney 2000.

‘‘In the gym, we show the kids a couple of the areas we focus on for first year players and some of the areas they should work on.'' Burge said many young players drafted into the AFL carried niggling injuries often caused by poor technique.

‘‘The main thing to teach young kids is body awareness, balance and posture - you have to get them running and moving properly,'' Burge said.

‘‘The strength side of it does play a big role, but before you can use the strength that you develop, you have to be able to apply it.

‘‘We call it functional training and in that there are three key components that we work on - injury prevention, functional training and core strength training, which is the real hardcore stuff that takes about three years before you really work into it with young guys."

Going by that the serial whingers about our kids not being tanks in their first couple of seasons will not be fulfilled by this appointment.
 

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Yes. Former Australian Long jumper. Not to be confused with the former Australian test cricketer, and the former Australian rugby union player.

Formerly yours.

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Bazzar said:
He just sign with the Saints last year, Why did they let him go so soon.
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Spent 6 years at Hawthorn as strength and conditioning before it and went to St Kilda to go up a level and become high performance manager.

"Why did they let him go so soon?" is a pretty pessimistic question to ask.

He's obviously left on his own accord and it's his own business. Different clubs and coaches have different opinions, he probably simply didn't fit in like he did at Hawthorn and chose to move on. No slight on St Kilda or Burge as far as I'm concerned.
 
Bazzar said:
He just sign with the Saints last year, Why did they let him go so soon.
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They didn't let him go, he quit to join us.
 
PHX said:
Spent 6 years at Hawthorn as strength and conditioning before it and went to St Kilda to go up a level and become high performance manager.

"Why did they let him go so soon?" is a pretty pessimistic question to ask.

He's obviously left on his own accord and it's his own business. Different clubs and coaches have different opinions, he probably simply didn't fit in like he did at Hawthorn and chose to move on. No slight on St Kilda or Burge as far as I'm concerned.
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Watters was talking up the Saints football department having the best in the business at the BnF last night. I cant imagine having 2 performance managers in two years would be ideal after they lost Misson last year.
 
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Toadvine said:
Watters was talking up the Saints football department having the best in the business at the BnF last night. I cant imagine having 2 performance managers in two years would be ideal after they lost Misson last year.
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I also find it strange. Will be interesting to keep an eye out on the Saints board for their opinion on it all.
 
St Kilda's high-performance manager Peter Burge has quit the club to join Richmond, replacing the recently resigned and long-serving Matt Hornsby. The move will cause a reshuffle in the Saints' fitness area for the second time in 12 months, with David Misson leaving this time last year for Melbourne.
It is understood coach Scott Watters is pushing for a new-look sports science regime heavily based on that run by Collingwood's David Buttifant, a pioneering subscriber of high-altitude training.
 
UpTheGuts said:
St Kilda's high-performance manager Peter Burge has quit the club to join Richmond, replacing the recently resigned and long-serving Matt Hornsby. The move will cause a reshuffle in the Saints' fitness area for the second time in 12 months, with David Misson leaving this time last year for Melbourne.
It is understood coach Scott Watters is pushing for a new-look sports science regime heavily based on that run by Collingwood's David Buttifant, a pioneering subscriber of high-altitude training.
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Tho hardly call Buttifants approach "pioneering". High Altitude training (or simulated, being more practical at a day to day level) has been around a whiles.
 

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El Tigre said:
Tho hardly call Buttifants approach "pioneering". High Altitude training (or simulated, being more practical at a day to day level) has been around a whiles.
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I remember Buttifant's two games for us!
 

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